Filming on location in California, Lupino turns the potentially maudlin material into a searing, deep, trenchantly mature study in the dissolution of a personality.

NEWYORKER: The Young Lovers

It was her vanity that disgusted me, the way she undercut the confession with a preening, maudlin joke.

NEWYORKER: The Other Place

It all had a very ironic pop sensibility or was very maudlin.

WSJ: Phoenix: That Rare Export, Pop Music From France

Azazel Jacobs directed this maudlin yet feel-nothing feature, which risks giving independent filmmaking a bad name.

NEWYORKER: Momma's Man